Digital technologies and, especially, the Internet are profoundly reshaping the motion picture industry. Video-on-demand heightens the trend toward digitization and disintermediation. In the short term, the increasing use of digital technologies may result in significant cost reductions throughout the value chain. In the long term, the digitization of film production and distribution may induce...

Two studies aiming to analyze the vaccine cold chain throughout Spain, performed from 1988-89, sparked interest in vaccine logistics among public health authorities. The studies were performed using evaluation methodology based on cold chain monitor cards with a time-temperature indicator (Battersby's report) and cross-sectional surveys on the conditions of the cold chain (Ferrando's report) in...

Geographic price discrimination is generally considered beneficial to firm profitability. However, theoretical results point to conditions under which firms might prefer to price uniformly across markets in oligopolistic settings. This paper provides an empirical analysis of competitive price discrimination and quantitatively assesses the profitability of national pricing relative to store-leve...

One of the main applications of supply chain management is product tracking. We define it as tracing the product path along the supply chain. In this paper, we propose a solution to track the product while preserving the privacy of the supply chain actors involved and the path traced. More precisely, this solution allows to identify which path a product has taken in the supply chain, without di...

Even within a store chain and format, supermarket outlets often exhibit substantial differences in selling surface. For chain managers, this raises the issue of correctly anticipating the promotion lift, and of profitably managing promotion activities, across these outlets. In this paper, we conceptualize why and how store size influences the category sales effectiveness of four promotional ind...

The effect of the fatty acid content of the diet on that of adipose tissue was studied in 5 newborn infants studied prior to feeding and 30 infants fed ad libitum from birth with either human milk or a commercial formula as the sole nutrient. Significant positive linear correlations of dietary intake on adipose tissue content of fatty acids were found for both long- and medium-chain fatty acids...

This paper discusses a new system that enables meat supply chain stakeholders and regulators or authorities to track and trace and – at the same time – allows meat consumers to use their smartphone (or internet) to get immediate and direct access to all information on the specific meat item they see at the butcher or in the supermarket. This meat transparency system follows meat through the sup...

This paper studies nominal rigidities using a novel scanner data set consisting of weekly prices, costs and quantities sold for a cross-section of retailers in Chile. Nominal rigidities are found to take the form of reference price inertia. While posted prices change every 5 weeks (on average), reference prices change every two quarters (29 weeks), on average. Frequencies of reference price adj...

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis for both food safety and especially economic sustainability production in Canada around globe are explored. A full analysis is made nature virus, it spread as they relate to forces globalization which have created a global supply chain, with focus on weaknesses chain that fell prey virus its associated effects. Comparison was past outbreaks Spani...

Digital technologies and, especially, the Internet are profoundly reshaping the motion picture industry. Video-on-demand heightens the trend toward digitization and disintermediation. In the short term, the increasing use of digital technologies may result in significant cost reductions throughout the value chain. In the long term, the digitization of film production and distribution may induce...